In 2010, Yoko Ono posted this short message on social media, offering an interesting shift in perspective. Ono, an avant-garde artist, musician, and activist, is known for challenging traditional norms and widely held beliefs. We typically consider hate to be the opposite of love, but from Ono’s point of view, fear is the truer opposite because it’s the emotion that can prevent us from loving. This dichotomy between love and fear is something Ono has previously mentioned as existing in her own life. She wrote on her website, “In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further.”